Vexz @ Vexz @kbin.social

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I second this. Been using this tool since it was first released. It's a must for everyone who uses Win10/Win11, has a sense of privacy and has a reason why he cannot switch to Linux.

Good choices! Though Privacy Badger is not advised.

The title is misleading. The article only talks about LinkedIn.

There are even services that send you newsletter shit although you made sure you're opted out.
Also there's newsletter with a link to opt out but the link is just fake. I hate it so much.

As long as it works fine for you I'm glad. :)
If you're interested here are my three bad experiences with AGH:

• The "use AdGuard browsing security web service" option made all DNS queries so slow after a week to the point where nothing was resolved anymore. (That was 2 years ago, maybe fixed now)
• They removed some library with an update which caused a panic when booting AGH so it wouldn't start anymore. That library was needed to use the DoH encryption of one of my upstream DNS servers. I had to remove that one from my config.
• The next update didn't fix this issue but added another one: A few hours of running this version ( I don't remember the version number) the AGH service suddenly crashed. I started it again but 5 minutes later it would crash again. That was the point where I stopped using AGH because it didn't feel reliable anymore and updates only made it worse.

Really? How do I do that? I'd love to add the Neo Dev Host List to NextDNS.

and I was talking about Pi-Hole

Well, you said "you" so I thought you were talking about me since you replied to my comment.

Firefox and Telegram for example has built-in DNS if I’m not wrong. (you can disable it easily)

Right. I don't know about Telegram but in Firefoxes case I think it's disabled by default. I specifically checked that on my Firefox so it won't bypass my OPNsense.

We are sharing our use cases. And my context was “I don’t understand why people even talks about Pi-Hole”

You don't see it, do you? First you talk about your use case but then you talk about other people. So not your use case anymore. In their use case a Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS or whatever else maybe makes sense and isn't a bad choice.

EDIT: Also, I think using your phone for other things is wrong, they aren’t really designed for that, they aren’t that secure as a PC can be.

Erm... what?? Smartphones are designed for many different things. Browsing the internet is just one of many things it's made for. It's called "smartphone" for a reason.

Read the whole sentence. That "just" belongs to the fact that it's only available on a few selected OSes and none of them are for mobile devices.

Good choice. I've switched from pfSense to OPNsense over a year ago and I never looked back. Now that the news are out there's one more reason for me to not look back.

… any app can bypass easily your DHCP DNS provided…

In my network it can only do that if the app has a hardcoded encrypted DNS server because I use NAT rules to force all unencrypted DNS to be processed by my OPNsense (which uses NextDNS as upstream DNS servers). And I highly doubt many apps even have a hardcoded DNS server anyway (no matter if unencrypted or encrypted).

and as I said, I don’t install any weird app on my phone, I just use it as a phone, to communicate, chat and to download podcasts to listen on night.

That's your personal use case but not everyone elses. I do much more with my phone. For example browsing. And I think most people do it too. Anyway, as long as you use mobile internet even your OS on your phone could spy on you with tracker domains. Most people don't use a custom ROM so you're just one of few people who this doesn't apply to.

While you just win at your local home network… xD

Wrong. I use NextDNS so I have it everywhere. ;)

I use Pi-Hole and works great. I’ve heard about AdGuard and seems the same thing as PiHole

Only if you're talking about AdGuard Home, then yes. When you talk about AdGuard you usually just mean the adblocker app which is something completely different.

I used all three of them. While AdGuard Home has some nice features that Pi-hole doesn't, it in my experience has much more problems and has been unstable on some updates. So since you prefer stability for your DNS server I'd recommend Pi-hole over AdGuard Home.
NextDNS doesn't need to be self-hosted because it's a service on the internet. The disadvantage is that you are offered a list of blocklists from which you can choose but unlike Pi-hole or AdGuard Home you cannot add more lists. But they offer many lists so that's not a big problem. If you need more than 300k queries a month you need to pay for their service. But since NextDNS is a service on the internet it means that you can use it on all of your devices no matter where you are.

Maybe because that's just a firewall that can be installed on Windows, Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora. What about your mobile devices? This is where Pi-hole, AGH, NextDNS etc. win.

Does it have to be an app? I decided against an app because there are good websites like dict.cc with a mobile browser version which does its job very well. Another app less.

Haha, you're welcome. :D

Ooh, gotcha! Maybe this one then? I think they recently changed their design.

RethinkDNS maybe? Or maybe NextDNS?

Yes. Your DNS queries will be sent to a group of DNS servers instead of just one and they all can respond. This helps lowering the latency and improves the reliability since not just one DNS server can respond to your DNS queries. The installation page of NextDNS uses the anycast IP addressess.

I doubt you'll notice a difference with a different DNS provider. There are 5 of NextDNS's DNS servers in Australia. As long as you use anycast you should always have good speeds and reliability.

Sadly Plex collects some data about its users. I remember opting out of some telemetry stuff but I can't remember where that was. If you want a self-hosted streaming service like Plex that completely respects your privacy, Jellyfin is what you're looking for. I tried it and it's okay but not as good as Plex imo. But if your main focus is privacy then you should definitely check it out. It's FOSS.

Edit:
I found where I had to opt out some data collection for Plex. Open this site, scroll halfway down the page. You'lle see two checkboxes for "Send playback data to Plex" and "Advertising Consent".